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*Soph*

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About Me

MyGen Profile Generator About Me? I'm Sophie and I'm 21. I've spent my life in three places, Warrington, Rome and Manchester, but I don't come from any of the 3. My accent dictates something Lancashire-esque but it isn't strong enough to be proven. Thankfully I do not sound like either a Warrington Chav or a Mancunian. The two things I love more than anything in this world are music and my friends. I work at Salford Uni, and I adore my job and the people that I work with. I am a filthy-no-good-drop out from Manchester Uni, and am currently doing an Open University degree in English Literature and Language. I think a lot of people probably think I have the worst job ever, but i really enjoy it sometimes. Other times I don't.
I spend any free time doing one of several things:
a) playing World of Warcraft b) chillaxing with my favourite people, that would be Serena (look, it's a clicky!), Sarah (she has no clicky!) and Will Pierce (but he has a clicky!) c) watching a band i love
d) finding and listening to and going to see new music
e) being a couch potato
f) dancing like a twat in 5th/jillys/satans
g) meeting new people
h) writing about bands
simple pleasures for simple minds, ey!
By far, the most important things in my life are my closest friends, and the beautiful bands i love.
I am known as the snap happy one for my obsession with photographs.
I love buying and wrapping presents far more than I should.
I have a definite frog obsession. learn to live with it!
Likes =new, exciting music, (even if the band themselves aren't new, anything that's new to me), wrapping presents, reading books and taking photographs. frogs...honestly i'm normal! drawing pictures, and sticking things on my walls. kissing. the romantic poets and oscar wilde. finding someone who i can talk to the above about! my gorgeous friends, my old uni mates, and those other special people who make my world go round. That inexplicable high I get from watching live music.
Dislikes =people who think im crazy when actually, I just want to make everyone I know happy! spiders and general insects. Orange girls and everything that comes with that aspect of modern culture. Girls who pout in photographs!! People who come in drunk at half 2 in the morning and are purposely loud to wake everyone up. those who have no respect for other people. dirty, unhygenic people. People who think they are far better looking than they actually are. Big egos and hypochondriacs. People who can't follow through with something they've promised to do. My own inability to keep my room tidy. Worrying.
Things that make me REALLY happy =spending time with people i wouldn't expect to and having a really good laugh. seeing my friends, and watching others get slightly pissed. Getting hugs off people who hug well - none of this, oh, im just touching your shoulders lark. smiling at someone and them smiling back. helping someone out. seeing people ive made happy smile. listening to any feel good tunes. bill bailey, dylan moran, and most stand up comedy. meeting new people. that amazing feeling when i find a new song I love, and the crazy feelings i get when i hear said song again! Being able to fix a memory to a song so that if i wanna remember it in all it's vividness, all I gotta do is press play and I have it in my mind! being in love.
things that make me REALLY sad =missing my friends, fighting with my parents. finding out stuff that you knew would happen...but inside of you you hoped it wouldnt. when i dont see my close friends for long periods of time. the worst things in the world - when people are mad at me, angry at me, or people who i think the world of just...don't want to know.
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My Interests

Interests.
Music - listening to it. my iPod is my special friend.
Books - the reading of. Especially comic fantasies such as Tom Holt and Terry Pratchett, and teen fiction, such as anything by Trudi Canavan, Tamora Pierce, Melvin Burgess, Sherry Ashworth. Jaclyn Moriaty, John Marsden, Garth Nix, Darren Shan. Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell write/illustrate incredible children's books.
Bands - watching them live. Learning about them, talking to them. Writing about them!
Cooking - it's great fun, and I'm quite good at it. However I do eat far too much. This must be stopped.
People - meeting new ones is great. Talking to new people, finding new friends.
Friends - they are very important. Katie, Serena, Will and Sarah.

I'd like to meet:

I wouldn't say I was out to meet anyone on here. It's been a useful tool for finding out about new music, I have to admit! Celebrities wise - Sid Vicious if he wasn't dead and on drugs. The band Silvertide, Terry Pratchett, Tom Holt (are they as funny in real life?) Craig Charles, lots of other bands... Err, there's quite a few people I used to know I'd like to see again! Liv Tyler, Steve Tyler and Joe Perry are all DAMN cool!

Music:

Ah, music. Something that divides people on so many levels! I get withdrawal symptoms if I don't have anything to listen to. I love hearing new music. Listening to new music, and seeing new music.

One of my other favourite bands is Scouting for Girls .
Others that take my fancy are listed below.
The ones in funny colours are that way because I like them more. Logical, really!
The Academy Is...,
Aerosmith,
All-American Rejects,
Anberlin
Army of Freshmen,
Augustana,
Avenged Sevenfold,
Beach Boys,
Belle & Sebastian,
Blink-182,
Bon Jovi,
Bowling for Soup,
Breed 77,
Craig Armstrong,
David Bowie,
Dire Straits,
Domino,
Ejectorseat,
Everclear,
Fall Out Boy,
Feeder,
The Feeling,
Five for Fighting,
The Fratellis,
From First to Last,
Goo Goo Dolls,
Good Charlotte (before they went a bit shit!),
Greenday,
a little Gun's n Roses,
Head Automatica,
Hellogoodbye,
Hot Hot Heat,
The La's,
Laruso,
Lazlo Bane,
Little Volcanoes,
Lostprophets,
Luca Dirisio!,
Maroon 5,
MC Lars,
Mesh-29,
My Chemical Romance,
The New Radicals,
Nightmare of You,
Nil Lara,
Pulp,
Rancid,
Real Mackenzies,
Reel Big Fish,
Scouting for Girls,
Silvertide,
Smith 6079,
Snow Patrol,
Something Corporate,
Sugarcult,
Taking Back Sunday,
The Used,
Waking Ashland,
Zebrahead,

Movies:

Films I Like Include:
13 Ghosts
Aladdin
American History X
Anchorman
Armageddon
Batman Begins
Beauty and the Beast
Blades of Glory
Borat
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Crow
Edward Scissorhands
Eragon
Harry Potter - all of them.
The Grudge
Ice Age 1 & 2
The Little Mermaid
Lord of the Rings, 1,2 & 3
The Matrix
Monsters Inc.
Nightmare Before Christmas
Not Another Teen Movie
Ocean's 11
Pirates of the Caribbean 1,2 & 3
The Ring
Romeo and Juliet
Rover Dangerfield
The Prestige
Saw 1,2 & 3
Shrek 1 & 2
Silent Hill
Sin City
Stranger Than Fiction
Toy Story 1 & 2
Underworld
X-Men 1,2 & 3

Television:

Ah ha. Television. I like many programmes. Some of my favourites are:
3rd Rock From The Sun
Black Books
Blue Planet
Dirty Sanchez
Drop the Dead Donkey
Family Guy
Futurama
Jackass
Looney Tunes
Penny Crayon
Phoenix Nights
Poddington Peas
Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere
Red Dwarf
Scrubs
Sharkey & George
Simpsons
South Park
Spaced
Sweet 16
Teachers
Viva la Bam

Books:

I am obsessed with reading and books.
It would be impossible to write down a list of my favourite books, so I'll write about my favourite authors instead.
Melvin Burgess - Most definately my favourite author of all time. I love all his books, especially BloodTide, Junk and Sara's Face. also really like bloodsong, doing it (wrote my extended essay about it!), lady, loving april, tiger tiger...the whole lot really!
Trudi Canavan - the age of five and magician's guild series
Tom Holt - anything he writes. first ever was "falling sideways"
John Marsden - the "tomorrow" series is incredible.
Garth Nix - some of my favourite fantasy.
Tamora Pierce - good quality teenage.
Terry Pratchett - hilarious comic fantasy
Louise Rennison - amazing.
JK Rowling - but lets face it, now Harry Potter's over she's screwed
Dareen Shan - always good for a laugh!
Kate Thompson - switchers.
Catherine Webb - dreamcatcher/dreamweaver
These are just a few of the authors I enjoy reading...I consume most books at a stupidly fast speed, and will read almost anything.
Favourite genres are fantasy and comic fantasy (not as in graphic novels, as in fantasy thats funny! Terry Pratchett and all that.)
My favourite book of all time is probably BloodTide by Melvin Burgess. That along with Lady, Junk, Loving April, Tiger Tiger, BloodSong, Doing It and Sara's Face (his most recent) are some of my favourite books of all time.
I also enjoy some biographies, but they have to be really interesting! Anthony Kiedis' biography was one I really enjoyed.

Heroes:

My heroes?
Probably just people that matter to me.
That are good, kind, nice people, regardless of anything else.
Being famous doesn't matter, it's how a person acts regardless of their social status that makes them heroic.
Tom
SFG
My mum (who's always tried to do the best for me
Anyone who works in helping animals
Anyone who takes in sick animals
People who foster or adopt

My Blog

Updatedness and the Like.

Well. Lots of things have happened since I blogged the last time. I have been with my gloriously gorgeous boyfriend Daniel for just over four months now. He makes me so happy. Slightly more confident&...
Posted by *Soph* on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:39:00 PST

a large, large sum up. please read it - you're probably in it!

I will not be beaten down by people's desire to make me sad. I will not cry in front of those who I have no respect for. I will not cave on my dreams because I'm scared of the reactions of others. &nb...
Posted by *Soph* on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:43:00 PST

Mesh-29

quite a few ppl have read this already on my MSN space blog but if u haven't...enjoy. if u have , tough, u don't have 2 read it I'm jus postin it everywhere cos im actually quite proud of it.   &...
Posted by *Soph* on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:23:00 PST

ok, random blog

just to say i dont blog on here...my blog is http://spaces.msn.com/members/sofsophsof i'm now a student of the UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER! which kicks ass. i have the two most fantastic best friend...
Posted by *Soph* on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:22:00 PST

the italian mentality

sometimes, i wonder why i bother,ya know? and others,i get a mini boost that makes me feel good. im ill right now, feverish and a headache. i came home early, on the train, then the bus. dreaded t...
Posted by *Soph* on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the temperature right now is killin me!

dudes. im so cold. seriously. my fingers are turning into ice blocks and its driving me mad. what can i dooooooooooooooooooooooooo help!
Posted by *Soph* on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST